Posted on 04/15/2018 11:01:34 AM PDT by Trillian
Two women have come forward to detail allegations of workplace sexual harassment, statutory rape and possession of child pornography against animator and Ren & Stimpy creator John Kricfalusi.
In a detailed report by BuzzFeed News, Robyn Byrd and Katie Rice recounted befriending Kricfalusi when they were just 13 after writing him as fans and aspiring animators. They said he paid special attention to the two young girls and promised to help foster their careers. In Byrds case, she ended up becoming his live-in girlfriend and intern at his company when she was 16 and he was 39, according to the report. Rice, meanwhile, allegedly endured years of sexual harassment while working for Kricfalusi as well.
While Ren & Stimpy is perhaps Kricfalusis most well-known work, hes been a staple of the cartoon animation for decades, most recently animating two opening sequences for The Simpsons and doing the key art for Miley Cyrus Bangerz tour. The accusers said he carried a great deal of clout.
After Byrds initial letter to him, she claimed she was sent boxes of toys and art supplies, and he helped her get her first AOL account and the two started communicating with each other online.
At first, she said she thought their relationship was strictly professional. However, when she was in 11th grade, he reportedly flew her to Los Angeles and initiated sexual contact for the first time, when she was 16.
The summer before her senior year in 1997, she said she moved in with him as his girlfriend before her senior year of high school, and after she graduated, she moved in permanently and continued to work for him at his Spumco animation company.
The relationship ended briefly in 2000 and for good in 2002. She said the situation grew so tumultuous that she
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It’s better than bad, it’s good!
Still, Seems like she knew what she was doing.
Yeah, if you move in with someone that just screams consent.
“Yeah, if you move in with someone that just screams consent.
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Unfortunately, it can mean just that. I don’t approve, but as a band leader, I’
ve met a few!
he’s such a toad. a rich toad i guess!
That "history eraser button" probably sounds pretty good right about now
I think he spotted her and her assets in Central Park.
Imagine if a creepy 39 year old homeless guy tried to pick her up...
The bimbos who hung out with Hef said theyd love him even if he was poor and not famous. Sure. Plastic blonde twentysomethings are driving down the road and see an old man weeding in his smoking jacket and say, Oooh, I gotta have some of that!
Womanzuma’s Revenge
” In Byrds case, she ended up becoming his live-in girlfriend and intern at his company when she was 16 and he was 39,”
Does she have parents?
Statutory rape.
No matter the law prohibiting what this loser did would be enough for me to allow any 16 year old daughter of mine to spend the summer living with a 39 year old man.
You EEdiot!
I watched part of one Ren & Stimpy once. I found it creepy and perverse, not funny or creative.
This would not surprise me at all.
I used to watch when I was 12 when I’d go over to my cousins house because they had cable. I found it hilarious and disturbing at the same time. I haven’t watched in a long time.
I’m not sure if there is a victim. But there was a crime committed - with a minor. Whether consensual or not or whatever, one person was 16 and the other 39. That’s a crime.
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